Owing to the inefficiency of the conventional primary and secondary recovery methods to
yield above 20–40% of the OOIP (original oil in place) as incremental oil, the need for EOR …

The use of metamodeling techniques in the design and analysis of computer experiments
has progressed remarkably in the past 25 years, but how far has the field really come? This …

Improving oil recovery by CO 2 injection continues to gain momentum in mature oil fields
due to its favorable industrial and environmental benefits. One remediation for the poor …

A dilute surfactant–polymer (S–P) flooding system has been designed and developed for
Gudong oilfield with Shengli petroleum sulfonate (SLPS) as the primary ingredient. The …

Enhanced oil recovery methods (EOR) are designed to increase reservoir productivity by
facilitating oil displacement in the porous media. Due to its physicochemical properties …

Lignin sulphobetaine zwitterionic surfactants (LSBA) were successfully synthesized by a
cost-effective three-step route containing sulfonation, quaternization and alkylation reaction …

The increasing demands of oil energy has created burden on conventional oil recovery
methods because of which use of synthetic chemicals is increasing and creating significant …

Surfactant Polymer flooding (SP flooding) has drawn more attention than Alkaline Surfactant
Polymer flooding (ASP flooding) in China due to the difficulty of demulsification and the …

The inadequacy of worldwide fossil fuel resources, combined with increasing energy
demands, encourages global attention to either using alternative energy resources or …

Sensitivity analysis is typically required to screen unwanted history matching parameters so
that computational cost can be reduced. Random Forests is a well-known statistical learning …